OSI Approves Microsoft Licenses

Robert Hodgins ehodgins at telusplanet.net
Mon Oct 22 00:38:50 BST 2007


On Sun, 2007-21-10 at 19:30 -0400, Scott Abbey wrote:
> Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> > David Gerard spake thusly:
> >> On 21/10/2007, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> >>> Brian Burger spake thusly:
> >>>> Can I be the first to invoke Godwin and bring this thread to a merciful end?
> >>> Invoke Godwin?
> >>
> >> As the number of edits to a wiki page increases, the probability of a
> >> goatse appearing at the top approaches one.
> > 
> > LOL. OK, I'm amused. But what does that have to do with the price of eggs?
> > 
> 
> Actually, it originally referred to the probability of someone invoking
> Nazis, Hitler, fascism, etc. in a discussion[1].
> 
> As a corollary, it is generally accepted that once Godwin's law is
> invoked the debate is over, and whoever made the allusion to Nazis loses
> the debate by default.
> 
>  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
> 
How decidely Stalinist!




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